ComputerLand once more, early 1980s:pic.twitter.com/3STGsdfYVy
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ComputerLand once more, early 1980s:pic.twitter.com/3STGsdfYVy
A little newer, but still cool – a lot of detail in the window.pic.twitter.com/B60HR5EDXS
Vancouver’s The Byte Shop (later Byte Computers), 1978. https://vancouvertrueborns.com/post/131586398776/who-sold-the-first-apple-computers-in-canada …pic.twitter.com/1R1nqoa7PJ
“Man using IBM computer at retail store.” (IBM Displaywriter, it seems.) https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/man-using-ibm-computer-at-retail-store-news-photo/50312546?adppopup=true …pic.twitter.com/FuwtpxDUX0
Ooh, these are nice. A store in the Netherlands, 1984.pic.twitter.com/NBsnRd9S6P
(If you can name possibly the most beautiful laptop that’s hiding in the last photo, we can be friends!)
Here we go, @marzagao got it right! It’s Data General One, an early laptop of truly beautiful proportions.
I still have a framed poster of it somewhere. *swoon*pic.twitter.com/EZRtm4svud
A great submission from @josch:
“Customers at the computer-section of a Karstadt department store in West Germany. (1983)”pic.twitter.com/O8klVRV3mU
And, I really love this, from @thomasafine: “Shopping for the latest in computer and video games at Toys 'R' Us, 1983”pic.twitter.com/XK3FNcp83W
save this ebay search, might turn up something interesting over time (albeit with annoying watermarks) https://picclick.com/Collectibles/Photographic-Images/?q=%281976%2C1977%2C1978%2C1979%2C1980%2C1981%2C1982%2C1983%2C1984%2C1985%2C1986%2C1987%2C1988%2C1989%2C1990%2C1980s%29+%28computer%2Cmicrocomputer%2Ccomputers%2Csoftware%29+%28games%2Cstore%2Cretail%2Cstores%2Cmall%29 …pic.twitter.com/l7yiu6qPcm
Oh, that’s a fantastic idea.
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